It was a dark and stormy night . . .
Sunday evening the love of my life and wife of almost 47 years was returning home from a dinner theater play and yes it was dark and stormy although there was no rain at the time and the freeway was dry. She was driving the speed limit and blending with traffic. Then she was rear ended by another vehicle. At 60 mph.
The impact destroyed the big chrome steel bumper and trailer hitch on the pickup truck, driving the bed of the truck into the back of the cab damaging both. It also catapulted her across the freeway spinning at least one 360 degree circle during which she hit another car destroying the big chrome steel front bumper of the truck and totaling the third vehicle. The truck came to rest upright in the ditch on the right hand side of the freeway facing in the direction of traffic.
The police estimate that the impact was at least 30 mph faster than the 60 my wife was driving.
Two cars totaled and we're awaiting the verdict on our half ton truck. No one was injured. Everyone had insurance. Everyone went home that night. Largely because of federally mandated improvements to automobiles. Also because everybody wasn't driving 90 mph due largely to the big reflective signs saying the speed limit was 60 mph and because our state mandates liability insurance.
Some would argue that this just proves that traffic laws don't work, can't prevent accidents and are waste of time. They will also tell you that adding technology to their own personal fetish won't work, isn't reliable and would make the object of their desire too expensive to own. The same people will say that mandated liability insurance on the inanimate objects they so covet would be too expensive while at the same time telling you that these objects are perfectly safe because they are responsible and law abiding.
I think you know who those people are and in which group/forum to find them.
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"If you're gonna get into a vehicular collision, you should be driving the biggest most powerful vehicle."
It applies in many groups/forums.
good that all are ok.
